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Apache Kafka vs Coralogix comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 17, 2024

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We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

Apache Kafka
Ranking in Streaming Analytics
8th
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
88
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Coralogix
Ranking in Streaming Analytics
12th
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
11
Ranking in other categories
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability (20th), Log Management (19th), Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) (22nd), API Management (16th), Anomaly Detection Tools (1st)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2025, in the Streaming Analytics category, the mindshare of Apache Kafka is 3.0%, up from 1.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Coralogix is 0.2%, up from 0.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Streaming Analytics
 

Featured Reviews

Snehasish Das - PeerSpot reviewer
Data streaming transforms real-time data movement with impressive scalability
I worked with Apache Kafka for customers in the financial industry and OTT platforms. They use Kafka particularly for data streaming. Companies offering movie and entertainment as a service, similar to Netflix, use Kafka Apache Kafka offers unique data streaming. It allows the use of data in…
reviewer1915599 - PeerSpot reviewer
Good capabilities, has a helpful interface and is straightforward to set up
We have asked for a couple of features from the company already. What typically happens is a lot of people - and developers are one of the biggest consumers of this product - go to this product to optimize their investigation process and specific configurations. That increases our data flow at times, so the cost changes. And a lot of changes happen due to that. We have asked the company to auto-revert the changes after a while so that the system works typically. We want it to work at what it is expected to work at and not really based on the updated configuration which one developer has decided to change.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"All the features of Apache Kafka are valuable, I cannot single out one feature."
"Resiliency is great and also the fact that it handles different data formats."
"It's an open-source product, which means it doesn't cost us anything to use it."
"The most valuable feature is the performance."
"The high availability is valuable. It is robust, and we can rely on it for a huge amount of data."
"We get amazing throughput. We don't get any delay."
"Deployment is speedy."
"The most valuable feature is the messaging function and reliability."
"The most valuable feature of Coralogix is that it is a very good vendor for metrics."
"Numerous data monitoring tools are available, but Coralogix somehow fine-tunes our policies and effectively supports our teams."
"A non-tech person can easily get used to it."
"The log monitoring is good, and the dashboards that we create are beneficial."
"The solution offers very good convenience filtering."
"The solution is easy to use and to start with."
"Coralogix scales well, and I will rate it nine out of ten."
"The best feature of this solution allows us to correlate logs, metrics and traces."
 

Cons

"The ability to connect the producers and consumers must be improved."
"For the original Kafka, there is room for improvement in terms of latency spikes and resource consumption. It consumes a lot of memory."
"The repository isn't working very well. It's not user friendly."
"In the data sharing space, the performance of Apache Kafka could be improved."
"More adapters for connecting to different systems need to be available."
"The solution can improve its cloud support."
"The price for the enterprise version is quite high. It would be better to have a lower price."
"There have been some challenges with monitoring Apache Kafka, as there are currently only a few production-grade solutions available, which are all under enterprise license and therefore not easily accessible. The speaker has not had access to any of these solutions and has instead relied on tools, such as Dynatrace, which do not provide sufficient insight into the Apache Kafka system. While there are other tools available, they do not offer the same level of real-time data as enterprise solutions."
"The customizable dashboards haven't really helped with my company's efficiency at all, and I think there's room for improvement."
"Coralogix should have some AI capabilities to auto-detect anomalies and provide suggestions."
"The features we were missing in the past were related to the way we see our metrics and aggregate our data."
"Coralogix should have some AI capabilities to auto-detect anomalies and provide suggestions. The increasing volume of data and the resulting bandwidth charges are concerns."
"Maybe they could make it more user-friendly."
"The documentation of the tool could be improved"
"We want it to work at what it is expected to work at and not really based on the updated configuration which one developer has decided to change."
"The user interface is not intuitive, especially when first onboarding, and improvements could be made here."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Apache Kafka is free."
"The solution is open source; it's free to use."
"Apache Kafka has an open-source pricing."
"It is approximately $600,000 USD."
"Kafka is open-source and it is cheaper than any other product."
"It's quite affordable considering the value it provides."
"It's a premium product, so it is not price-effective for us."
"When starting to look at a distributed message system, look for a cloud solution first. It is an easier entry point than an on-premises hardware solution."
"We are paying roughly $5,000 a month."
"The cost of the solution is per volume of data ingested."
"The platform has a reasonable cost. I rate the pricing a three out of ten."
"Currently, we are at a very minimal cost, which is around $400 per month since we have reduced our usage. Initially, we were at $900 per month."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
29%
Computer Software Company
12%
Manufacturing Company
7%
Retailer
6%
Computer Software Company
13%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Healthcare Company
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What are the differences between Apache Kafka and IBM MQ?
Apache Kafka is open source and can be used for free. It has very good log management and has a way to store the data used for analytics. Apache Kafka is very good if you have a high number of user...
What do you like most about Apache Kafka?
Apache Kafka is an open-source solution that can be used for messaging or event processing.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Apache Kafka?
Its pricing is reasonable. It's not always about cost, but about meeting specific needs.
What do you like most about Coralogix?
Numerous data monitoring tools are available, but Coralogix somehow fine-tunes our policies and effectively supports our teams.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Coralogix?
The pricing is expensive. We need to reduce logs to manage costs. Despite the expense, I believe it is worth the money to have Coralogix as a tool.
What needs improvement with Coralogix?
Change might not be the correct word, but with every service, there is always room to improve. They are improving their services daily and deploy new features. When we had missing features that we ...
 

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Sample Customers

Uber, Netflix, Activision, Spotify, Slack, Pinterest
Payoneer, AGS, Monday.com, Capgemini
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